Ginny and Duncans Big Adventure

Still on the flight from Cape Town to Dubai, I'm on a roll.  We land in Dubai at half past midnight and our connecting flight to Kuala Lumpur is at 3am or so.  It's the worst connection we have on the entire trip, and so I might as well use this flight to write my last post on the South Africa portion of our journey.  I certainly won't want to be typing on the next leg. Our last 2 days in The Cape were mixed - for me at least.  We did fantastic things, but I'll admit right now to the fact that my back has been giving me trouble on and off since we got here. It was horrible after our flight from London, then improved and generally, has been OK.  But on Sunday that changed.  We woke up early to a glorious day, with a plan to do a second hike in the Mont Rochelle National Park, and hopefully get those views that we didn't get 2 days ago in the thick cloud.  Off we set, with all the kit, including walking poles.  Beautiful sunshine, with clouds gent...

Duncan and I had both imagined that the pace of our last few days in the Cape would be considerably slower than the past week.  As it turns out, I'm writing this on Tuesday 24th Oct, while flying from Cape Town to Kuala Lumpur - a full 5 days from where I left off. So while I'd like to think that we stopped to breathe more deeply, in retrospect, I'm not sure we did. Duncan's office at Mont Rochelle Estate  Thursday saw Paula and Elaine leave Franschhoek, giving us the run of P's gorgeous cottage.  We took a day to catch up on admin, swapping between free wifi at a craft beer 'cafe', Tuk Tuk , and James' ever generous offer of Mont Rochelle Hotel. I blogged, Duncan had meetings and caught up on emails.  And - after all our meals out in the past week - cooking dinner and eating in was fun.  Especially when your boyfriend has bought a selection of wonderful local wines.  😀 Tanks recharged, we were up and out earlyish on Friday morning. Destinatio...